Sentence examples for period performances from inspiring English sources

I believe that period performances show that Messiah, even when performed by the largest of amateur choirs, is all the better for ditching the additional instrumentation that crept into the score in the heyday of massed choral performances.

Bachians of unlimited means can throw many more close comparisons of period performances into the mix with the Harmonia Mundi sets.

This is standard practice for period performances of Beethoven and greater familiarity has certainly not bred contempt for this liberated and often thrilling method.

The ACO's instruments are modern, but there was enough in the two Mozart symphonies to show that some of the techniques of period performances had been taken on board – there was no spare flesh on the textures and vibrato was very strictly rationed.

From the festival's inception, its programming has been creative and clever, performed by musicians specializing in period performance.

Top-rated teaching departments It's music only - but that includes performing (including jazz, vocal and period performance), composing, conducting and academic studies.

One area she will continue to emphasize is period performance.

But isn't there always compromise in period performance?

But he added, "The only reason to do period performance practice is because it works better".

The artistic director will be Monica Huggett, an English violinist steeped in period performance.

But John Eliot Gardiner's period performance leaves all the others in the shade.